Push Polling? Desperation time already for Weldon?

Push polling is the rancid campaign tactic where a phone caller pretends to be a legitimate political pollster, but then asks leading questions that plant a doubt or falsehood in the poll-taker's mind. I believe this was the tactic that the Bush campaign used against John McCain in the 2000 GOP primary race in South Carolina, where they asked "Would you think less of McCain if you knew he had a black baby?" The pollster never really lies and says the subject of the question is true, but the implication is powerful.

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer's piece about push-polling in the PA-7 race shows that Weldon supporters are very concerned about this race and are trying to use this sordid technique to bolster Weldon's sagging poll numbers. According to the article:

Dennis Berry of West Chester said that Venture Data L.L.C., a Salt Lake City polling company, asked him a series of negatively framed questions about Sestak, including one he described as outlandish. Berry said he was asked if he would be more or less likely to vote for Sestak if he knew Sestak "had an opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden in Sudan and passed."
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Venture Data didn't return phone calls. Michael Puppio, Weldon's campaign manager, said that the polling company was not working for the Weldon campaign.

So I guess the Venture Data company just thought they'd call a few people in our area to see how they were doing?

The funny thing about this is that according to this 2002 Washington Post story:

U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight
Failure to Send Troops in Pursuit Termed Major Error
The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge. ... The Bush administration has never acknowledged that bin Laden slipped through the cordon ostensibly placed around Tora Bora as U.S. aircraft began bombing on Nov. 30.

So maybe there should there be a push poll that asks:
"Would you more or less likely to vote for Weldon if you knew he supported the Bush administration that let bin Laden get away just a few months after 9/11?"